Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Something to Share ......

I always like to share good thing to friends, hope that a little sharing will help. Firstly, just find a quiet place where you are alone and uninterrupted. Clear your mind of everything, don’t worry about your schedule, business, family and friends. Just focus on me with your open mind.

Imagine that now you are going to attend a funeral of a loved one, you are driving to the to the funeral chapel, parking your car and getting out. As you walk in to the chapel, you can see a lot flowers and the soft organ music. You see some faces of friends and family when you pass alone the way. All feel the sorrow of losing.

As you walk in to the front of the room and look inside the casket, suddenly you face to face with yourself, this is actually your funeral, five years from now, all these people come here is to attend your funeral. They all here is to express feeling of love and appreciation for your life.

You take a seat and look at the program list. There are to be four speakers. The first speaker is you family, immediate and also extended –children, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents who have come from all over the country. The second speaker is one of your friends, who can give a sense of what you were as a person. The third speaker is from you work or profession. And the forth speaker is from your church or some community organization where you have involved in service.

Now think deeply, what would you like all these speakers to say about you and your life? What kind of husband, wife, father or mother would you like their word to reflect? What kind of friend? What kind of working associate? What character would you like them to seen in you? What contributions and achievements would like them to remember? Look carefully at the people around you. what difference would you like to have make in their life?

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Age After 35 Years.

Last week, I have received a long distance called from one of my good friend, he was checking on my age, I'm replied him and said "what's up", I'm 36 young man, anything I can help? He loudly said "you only have 19 years to go; I said “what 19 yrs? I intend to live until 80 yrs old, you say I have only 19 year to go, what the X man!!" He quickly and softly replied that "you misunderstood me; I mean you have another 19 years to go for your retirement age".

After walk through my mind, I'm agreed with him and said "ya, you are right, time goes very fast, another 19 years is my retirement age". He told me that he is worrying on the retirement time now, whether he can save enough money for his retirement age; if only depend on the EPF saving, how long the money can be last. Although he has a comfortable life now, but the problem is he got no saving at this time.

At the same day, another friend of mine called me, He said "hi Jochua, how are you? Long time didn’t chat with you, how's life?" As normal I replied him with “Oh, fantastic! I'm enjoying good life here, so far so good and how about you? He said " still survive, business is getting slow, I don't think my business can sustain for long, I intend to invest in others kind of business, anyway I going to Europe trip next month, hope to meet you after that. I said “sure, keep in touch and enjoy your trip".

In another two day, I met up with another good friend. In the conversation, she was asking me one question, she said " if we departure from this world one day, either go to heaven or hell, do you think we still can enjoy as current? Is mean like foods, clothes, friends and so on. I totally stunned on that time, I told her that I haven’t think on that stage yet, I only think on my current life.

As As we can see, when age getting older, the thinking and perception will change automatically, Good luck.